Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

alongside Tony Sager , senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. National Security Agency. Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security. TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. It made sense. Probably not.

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Armstrong Archives

AUGUST 25, 2023

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. Healthcare organizations can face steep penalties and serious damage to their reputation if they don’t meet the HIPAA’s requirements.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Simultaneously, onboard electronics evolve from individual electronic control units to high-performance computers with higher performance and simplified integration. OEMs also need to encrypt messages within a vehicle and all other communications that extend beyond it.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 11, 2021

On 16 December 2020, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (“NIS II Directive”) that revises the current Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (“NIS Directive”). see also our previous blogpost on the NIS Directive).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It is no secret that security plays a very important part in the successful deployment and management of this technology, and its applications are set to transform the way we live and do business. What is the biggest security challenge facing the growing IoT? Weak authentication.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. In 2017, 94% of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 18, 2018

There is no time frame established for this review since it may take a substantial amount of time, especially with encrypted drives. On board computer systems in automobiles, Exif data in digital photos, GPS coordinates in Google maps are all examples of this type of data which has been used as evidence for years.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 3, 2014

Accordingly, the DPAs emphasized that such technology must meet rigorous legal standards: Consent is the sole applicable legal basis for processing such data if permanent biometric templates for facial recognition are created. Human Rights and Electronic Communications. Increased public spending on IT security.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

This office had sort of crawled to a halt, because they were processing kids that had lost their parents and they were trying to find profiles and sponsors for them, sponsors that pay for their schooling and all that stuff, and their network, their computers were so screwed up that they had to like stop. You might not know any real hackers.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Naturally, database vendors are leading providers of database security tools, and a growing number of cloud-based database providers are moving deeper into the data security space. Security is paramount. Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Countless office workers were forced to get back to their jobs after Reddit suspended a host of accounts in light of security concerns. Facebook said that the breach was discovered in January 2019 as part of an internal security review.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And there'd be no way to set the phone to vibrate during a meeting except by powering it off. Often the tiny flashing light on the dashboard also alerts would-be criminals that the car is protected by the latest form of anti theft security. A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle.

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OneHub

JULY 27, 2021

To improve security. When a software company identifies a vulnerability and finds a solution, they release a security patch to fix it. There are many reasons it’s essential to stay on top of updates, but digital security is one of the most important. Why do companies issue software updates?

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Knudsen: My name is Jonathan Knutson, and I am a security researcher at synopsis. So a lot of it has to do with just how programmers naturally work which is they're trying to build something that functions, they have a list of things that it needs to do, and they try to write code to meet each of the things on that list.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

4 The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have begun — since their inception — with a guiding command for courts to seek “to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.”5 social security and credit card numbers, employee and patient health data, and customer financial records).”43

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Initially, security vendors only offered two-factor authentication. Since then, security vendors have introduced new methods for authentication, which can be layered to create a multi-factor authentication solution. This post has been updated for 2021. Something you have.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2020

Over that same period, the company has been exposed for having both lousy privacy and lousy security. In general, Zoom's problems fall into three broad buckets: (1) bad privacy practices, (2) bad security practices, and (3) bad user configurations. Now security: Zoom's security is at best sloppy, and malicious at worst.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. And by de I'm an analyst at Javelin strategy and research where I do security risk and fraud for the financial services industry. I write a monthly security column for Windows Secrets and I do a couple other things on the side.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electronic Things. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games. In the moment you’ll meet someone who’s been gamifying infosec for years. Really bored. So I would take things apart. Mechanical things.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electronic Things. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games. In the moment you’ll meet someone who’s been gamifying infosec for years. Really bored. So I would take things apart. Mechanical things.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically. Where the Information Commissioner gives notices to data controllers, she can now secure compliance, with the power to issue substantial administrative penalties of up to 4% of global turnover.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Is there a moment in the history of computing that is as significant as the one we’re in now? And that has been the workhorse of the design of computer chips for years and years. And that has been the workhorse of the design of computer chips for years and years. Others have said, it’s as significant as the iPhone.

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